Steve Allen was a television innovator whose late night show on Westinghouse (syndicated networ) was the inspiration for the eccentricity of Letterman’s late night show. Allen made prank phone calls, placed a live camera on the street for commentary, hid in the studio asking audience to find him.

Spielberg’s entire career has been underrated, because it has been so successful and his films always prioritize the work itself as a craftsman rather manifesting his ego as a “profound” artist, as many lesser filmmakers do.

+ Madigan dir. Don Siegel and Road House w/ Ida Lupino

Really? Breaking Point with John Garfield and Patricia Neal is a Curtiz film on the level of Casablanca, Mildred Pierce or Robin Hood. It needs more attentio!

This is a great and underrated film with the same view of the world as presented in Chinatown.

This is a great and underrated film with the same view of the world as presented in Chinatown.

Two excellent films. There is a fine 3rd collaboration of Stanwyck and MacMurray directed by Douglas Sirk - There’s Always Tomorrow which deserves more attention.

These are excellent alternative Christmas films:
Ice Harvest with John Cusack, Oliver Platt, Billy Bob Thornton
Merry Gentlemen with Michael Keaton, Kelly McDonald
Comfort and Joy - directed by Bill Forsyth (Local Hero)

Justice and the law are not the same thing in both films.

No qualifications required - Dirty Harry is a great film and quite similar thematically to Welles’ Touch of Evil, an undeniably brilliant film.

Watch a replay.

Deserves to be ignored after basically ending Pedroia’s career with a dirty slide.

Everyone knows this is not enough.
Bregman must return.
If so, it will have been a very good offseason.

There is another excellent movie titled Limbo from 2020 which the critics have strangely ignored. Highly recommended:
www.metacritic.com/movie/limbo/...

Available as rental from Amazon or Apple. Given lack of critical attention - theater showing may be hard to find.

David Strathairn! Speaking of Sayles. His most recent, Little Prayer has received no attention from critics this year, but is a fine, subtle film deserving more attention.

Agree entirely - with Fargo, my favorite film of that decade.
Sayles had his peak in the 90s with Lone Star, Passion Fish, City of Hope and Secret of Roan Inish - quite a run.